Dam el ghazal (2005)

Actors: Amr Abd El-Guelil (actor), Salah Abdallah (actor), Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni (actor), Nour El-Sherif (actor), Sabry Fawwaz (actor), Abdel-Rahim Hassan (actor), Abdel Aziz Makhyoun (actor), Sherif Salama (actor), Mohamed Sharaf (actor), Amr Waked (actor), Fathiya Tantawi (actress), Youssra (actress), Mona Zaki (actress), Ayman Halawani (producer), Wahid Hamid (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Amir El Zalam (2002)

Actors: Tawfik Abdel Hamid (actor), Youseff Daoud (actor), Ahmed El-Tuhami (actor), Reda Hamed (actor), Adel Imam (actor), Diaa Abdel Khalek (actor), Sa'eed Saleh (actor), Khaled Sarhan (actor), Younes Shalaby (actor), Alaa Zenhom (actor), Ragaa Al-Giddawy (actress), Dina (actress), Enas Mekky (actress), Shereen Seif El-Nasr (actress), Esam Imam (producer),

Plot: Pilot and October veteran Saeed El Masry has lost his sight. In the aftermath, he is in turnaround in special hostels due to his rebellious manners. In his next stop, he befriends a group of blind youngsters who make him their leader and furthermore their eyes to see the world. At night, Saeed dresses up and goes to a nightclub where he encounters Alia who falls in love with him. At the meantime, a mysterious gang of foreign terrorists chooses the blind hostel as their base to assassinate a politician visiting Egypt. These various plot elements culminate at the final climax when Saeed faces solely the terrorists with bravery.

Keywords: blind, cameo-appearance, irony, love, october-war, soccer-match, soldier, war-hero, year-1973
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance,

Edge (1997)

Actors: Abdallah A. Bilal (actor), Alvaro J. Gonzalez (actor), David Kersey (actor), Josh Kletzin (actor), Richard Kohn (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (actor), Jeff Mandon (actor), Mark O'Flahavan (actor), Mike Ritter (actor), Steve Tartalia (actor), Sean Walshe (actor), Mark White (actor), Mike White (actor), Briel Banks (actress), Ben Abdul-Haqq (actor),

Plot: Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no direction. From the past comes Lennox, a fellow soldier from the war, who invites him to go on a road trip with the promise of regaining the adventure and camaraderie they knew in the military. Edge is captured in the attraction of regaining his identity as a soldier and agrees to go, unaware of Lennox's all-consuming need for the powers of a warrior in battle. In the beginning, the trip re-awakens Edge's spirit, but gradually his memory returns as well, and as the events of the past become more horribly clear, so does Lennox's 'mission' become evident, and Edge finds himself in a nightmarish world of betrayal, both past and present. On a parallel road trip, a young girl, Berry, leads her mother on a quest to photograph UFO's, presumably for initiation into a society of witnesses. True motives involving the denial of her father's death, however, push below the surface of Berry's mission. Moving deeper into open country, the mother struggling to understand her daughter's feelings, the two women unknowingly get closer to the point where their own journey will converge with that of Edge and Lennox.

Keywords: absent-without-leave, air-cavalry, air-raid, air-strike, allegory, anti-hero, assassin, assassination, atrocity, battle
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything before now doesn't matter....

Quotes:

Edward 'Edge' Jones: I don't remember the explosion, you know. I just woke up in a hospital. There's a period that's completely gone - - - without any warning.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: This is how I woke up and they had to tell me why. They gave me a medal. They told me they were sorry. They thanked me.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: But it was never up to me, or any of the others. We were all blind. What good is a man against something that falls out of the sky?::Lennox: You survived. That's all that matters.

Lennox: You're a soldier... Don't try to live another way.

Edward 'Edge' Jones: While I was in the bathroom I was thinking about all of my operations. You know, I was under anesthetic for so much of the time that anything could have happened and I wouldn't have known it. What if one of those doctors had just decided to let me die and disconnected everything? They could do that and I'd be completely helpless. They could do anything they wanted to me and then kill me or just tell me that everything is fine when I wake up, and I'd never know the difference. I hate that feeling.::Lennox: There's no way around it.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: I don't trust doctors.

From the Office (1992)

Actors: Anthony Shaw Abaté (actor), Mark Korman (actor), Andrew Rapoport (actor), Roger Shank (actor), William Smith Keane (actor), Doug Tannahill (actor), Bill Weldon (actor), Jerrie Belle (actress), Samantha Henderson (actress), Andrea Liebert (actress), Jon Stout (writer), Jon Stout (director), Jon Stout (editor), Kerry de Lusignan (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A dark comedy in which an utterly random event reveals the most inhuman aspects of life in a bureaucratic system. A strange substance flies in from nowhere and lands on an unwitting Administrative Analyst, who is slowly consumed. Much paper-filing and bumbling ensues.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Short,

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Actors: Paul Antrim (actor), The Blue Dancers of Goulamine (actor), Karroom Ben Bouih (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Doghmi Larbi (actor), Jack May (actor), Albert Moses (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Mohammad Shamsi (actor), Gurmuks Singh (actor), Kimat Singh (actor), Nadia Atbib (actress), Graham Acres (actor),

Plot: This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.

Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, abstinence, abyss, action-hero, adventure-hero, adventurer, afghanistan, ambition, ambitious-man
Genres: Action, Adventure,
Taglines: Adventure in all its glory! Long live adventure... and adventurers! Rudyard Kipling's epic of splendor, spectacle and high adventure at the top of a legendary world.

Quotes:

Billy Fish: I oft times tell Ootah about Englishmens. How they give names to dogs and take off hats to womans, and march into battle, left - right, left -right with rifles on their shoulders.

Daniel Dravot: Peachy, I'm heartily ashamed for gettin' you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein' so bleedin' high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?::Peachy Carnehan: That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.::Daniel Dravot: Everything's all right then.

Daniel Dravot: Let him put *that* in his paper. If he is in need of news.

Peachy Carnehan: Keep looking at me. It helps to keep my soul from flying off.

Peachy Carnehan: Pardon me while I fall down laughing. HA, HA, HA.

Peachy Carnehan: Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you that it was detriments like us that built this bloody Empire AND the Izzat of the bloody Raj. Hats on.

Peachy Carnehan: Home to what? A porters uniform outside a restaurant and six penny tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on their blowzy women?::Daniel Dravot: Not for us thank you. Not after watching afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battlefield command when all the officers copped it.::Peachy Carnehan: Well said, brother Dravot.

Daniel Dravot: The more tribes, the more they'll fight, and the better for us.

Daniel Dravot: In any place where they fight, a man who knows how to drill men can always be a King. We shall go to those parts and say to any King we find - "D'you want to vanquish your foes?' and we will show him how to drill men; for that we know better than anything else. Then we will subvert that King and seize his Throne and establish a Dynasty.

Daniel Dravot: Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men.

Three Sisters (1970)

Actors: Alan Bates (actor), David Belcher (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Richard Kay (actor), Harry Lomax (actor), Kenneth MacKintosh (actor), David Munro (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Ronald Pickup (actor), George Selway (actor), Robert Walker (actor), Frank Wylie (actor), Mary Griffiths (actress), Alan Adams (actor),

Plot: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

Keywords: aging, based-on-play, brother-sister-relationship, clucking, death-of-father, dissatisfaction, feeling-old, husband-wife-relationship, independent-film, moscow-russia
Genres: Drama,

Zabijaka (1967)

Actors: Boleslaw Abart (actor), Andrzej Antkowiak (actor), Adolf Chronicki (actor), Andrzej Hrydzewicz (actor), Stanislaw Igar (actor), Tadeusz Lomnicki (actor), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (actor), Artur Mlodnicki (actor), Medard Plewacki (actor), Ryszard Wojtyllo (actor), Jadwiga Pytlasinska (actress), Aleksandra Zawieruszanka (actress), Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (writer), Teresa Galkowska (costume designer), Stanislaw Lenartowicz (director),

Genres: ,

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Actors: Peter Adams (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Robert Brubaker (actor), Charles Chaplin Jr. (actor), Mario Cimino (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), James Daly (actor), Charles Dingle (actor), Abdullah Abbas (actor),

Plot: The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little more then a carnival attraction. Even after sinking an "unsinkable" captured German battleship from the air, Mitchell sees funds dry up and friends die due to poor equipment. He is court-martialed after questioning the loyalty of his superiors for allowing the air corp to deteriorate.

Keywords: admiral, air-power, airship, american-president, army-air-corps, army-general, aviation-accident, aviation-pioneer, battleship, bomber
Genres: Biography, Drama, War,
Taglines: He defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial!

Quotes:

Admiral William S. Sims: The Navy hasn't got any policy on flying, they are ignoring the aeroplane in hopes that it will just go away.

Admiral William S. Sims: Just because you read a lot of books about golf, doesn't make you a good golfer.

Parnell (1937)

Actors: Erville Alderson (actor), King Baggot (actor), Frank Baker (actor), James Blaine (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Tyrone Brereton (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Randolph Churchill (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), George Cowl (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Robin Adair (actor),

Plot: The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically.

Keywords: aunt, based-on-play, blackmail, box-office-flop, catholic, character-name-in-title, critically-bashed, death, divorce, dying
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

[while visiting America, Parnell gives some money to a poor family]::Poor man: It's little wonder why they call him the King of Ireland.::Sheriff: The *uncrowned* King.::Poor woman: He'll get his crown in heaven.

[Parnell tries to convince Mrs. O'Shea of his love]::Charles Stewart Parnell: Have you never felt there might be someone, somewhere who, if you could meet them, was the person that you'd been always meant to meet? Have you never felt that?

Charles Stewart Parnell: Ours could be a great love story, Katie.::Mrs. Katie O'Shea: Great love stories are always unhappy ones.::Charles Stewart Parnell: Then I hope ours *won't* be great.